Essay 230

Quick Quotes from MultiCultClassics Minutes…

“It’s a big task. I’m aware of the enormity of this…But I also think that I’m up to the task.”
>>Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf, poised to become Africa’s first elected female head of state.

“I’m going through my own struggle, my own hurricane in a way…I believe in overcoming, and if I can do it, I wanna be that light so people can see me and feel they can be inspired and say, ‘You know, [he] can get through this, I can get through this, so we can actually go through this together.’”
>>R&B artist and alleged child pornographer R. Kelly, sounding really pathetic.

“[If] al-Qaeda comes in here and blows you up, we’re not going to do anything about it…You want to blow up the Coit Tower? Go ahead.”
>>Bill O’Reilly, responding to San Francisco voters who passed a ballot measure that urges public high schools and colleges to ban on-campus military recruiting.

“We regret this tragic incident, but we have to remind our patrons that violence at theaters is extremely rare…We’ve had 1.5 billion people come to the theaters in each of the past three years, and there were only a handful of violent incidents. Though very unfortunate, this type of incident is very rare at the cinema. At this time we don’t know if there is any association of this particular incident in connection with the [Get Rich Or Die Tryin’ starring 50 Cent] film that was playing.”
>>John Fithian, president of the National Association of Theater Owners, commenting on a fatal shooting that took place at a Pittsburgh theater. Yeah, right. The violence was probably inspired by Disney’s Chicken Little film.